There are a lot of unrealistic ideas out there promising this or that life enhancing elixir or quick fix and then, hey, your life and health and or looks will be somehow optimised. Biotechnology may offer some amazing potential treatments to come, but is not without risks to people and nature, much of it is not here yet and some of what it promises may offer unrealistic hope. Pharmaceutical products and natural seeming tonics and supplements are also potentially a mixed bag of outcomes where it’s hard to distinguish between genuine efficacy and placebo effect (even though that is an efficacy). Beyond that, questionable expensive surgical enhancements may tempt people in the hope of looking and feeling better. Commercial interests underpinning all of these products also muddy the waters of the truth of what may really help.
Staying well and working with what we have is clearly our best option when possible. With a little thought and effort anyone willing to learn to live in alignment with principles that work for them, and be consistent with that approach, can experience positive change in health status and even reversal of some health issues.
Flux and renewal are at the heart of life processes; biologically and neurologically we are constantly regenerating and resetting in response to our environment even as we age. This is cause for optimism; life is malleable. Cellular renewal occurs at all ages and the brain and nervous system are constantly rewiring and restructuring in response to our environment. Positive change is always possible and to a fair degree in our hands. How we live hugely influences how we feel and how life goes for us so some basic understanding of how these processes work should empower us to live long, healthy and well.
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